Quasimodo d'El Paris is a 1999 French film that is a comedic adaptation of the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris) by Victor Hugo.
Quasimodo d'El Paris | |
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Directed by | Patrick Timsit |
Written by | Jean-François Halin Raffy Shart Patrick Timsit |
Starring | Patrick Timsit Richard Berry Mélanie Thierry |
Music by | Laurent Petitgirard |
Distributed by | BAC Films |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | $11 million |
Box office | $12.8 million[1] |
Plot
editThe location is the town of El Paris. When ten-year-old boy Quasimodo shows signs of deformity, his well-to-do parents place him in the charge of the town’s mysterious evangelist, Frollo. In exchange, they adopt a Cuban girl, Esméralda, from a lower social class. Ten years later, El Paris is menaced by a serial killer, and Quasimodo is the prime suspect.[2]
Cast
edit- Patrick Timsit as Quasimodo
- Richard Berry as Serge Frollo
- Mélanie Thierry as Agnès / Esméralda
- Vincent Elbaz as Phoebus
- Didier Flamand as The Governor
- Patrick Braoudé as Pierre-Grégoire
- Axelle Abbadie as The Governor's wife
- Dominique Pinon as Trouillefou
- Albert Dray as Pablo
- Doud as Diego
- François Levantal as The psychopath
- Lolo Ferrari as the fairy
- Jean-François Halin as the car driver
- Raffy Shart as the man with a hat
- Cathy Guetta as The prostitute
References
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